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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .
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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
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On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Mankind is unamendable.
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The heart resolves this matter in a trice, Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.
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Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
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The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at if we laugh at it, they say we are proud if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
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The laughers are a majority.
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Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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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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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
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So perish all who do the like again.
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Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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