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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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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
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At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.
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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them
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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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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.
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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
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The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
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If, presume not to God to scan The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.
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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.
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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.
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