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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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In death a hero, as in life a friend!
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Judges and senates have been bought for gold Esteem and love were never to be sold.
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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
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For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends
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A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
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The villain's censure is extorted praise.
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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
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To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
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You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
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But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
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One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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