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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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A field of glory is a field for all.
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.
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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
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A long, exact, and serious comedy In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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Judge not of actions by their mere effect Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
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Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.
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False happiness is like false money it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
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