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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between in doubt to act or rest In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast In doubt his mind or body to prefer Born to die, and reasoning but to err.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
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But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.
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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.
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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
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Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.
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Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.
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Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
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Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
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chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.
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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
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What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
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