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Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.
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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practice it.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.
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It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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Then sculpture and her sister arts revived stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.
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While man exclaims, See all things for my use! See man for mine! replies a pamper'd goose.
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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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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
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Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.
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