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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
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O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practice it.
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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
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I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.
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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
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Never find fault with the absent.
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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.
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Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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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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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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