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In death a hero, as in life a friend!

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Virtue alone is happiness below.
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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
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Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.
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Health consists with temperance alone.
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
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Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.
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Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?
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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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With too much quickness ever to be taught With too much thinking to have common thought.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
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