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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
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Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
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Who pants for glory, finds but short repose A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
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The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
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She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.
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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
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That each from other differs, first confess next that he varies from himself no less.
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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
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Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.
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Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.
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Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still A Gownman learn'd a Bishop what you will Wise if a minister but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.
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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.
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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves.
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
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