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Hope springs eternal.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
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All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.
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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
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Astrologers that future fates foreshow.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!
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