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New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
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The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.
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All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood All partial evil, universal good.
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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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And make each day a critic on the last.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.
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In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.
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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
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Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.
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