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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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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
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What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue.
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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
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A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
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Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
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Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
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How vast a memory has Love!
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.
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It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
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Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.
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Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.
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