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

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!
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A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.
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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.
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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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Hope humbly then with trembling pinions soar Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .
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Whatever is, is right.
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Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.
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A mighty maze! But not without a plan.
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
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While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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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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Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.
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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.
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