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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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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
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A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.
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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
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Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
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Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.
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The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
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Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
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Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.
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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
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