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You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.
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Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
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To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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