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Hope springs eternal.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?
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Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
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Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
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Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!
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Man, like the generous vine, supported lives the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.
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No craving void left aching in the soul.
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Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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So upright Quakers please both man and God.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.
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She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.
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See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.
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To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.
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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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