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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
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Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still A Gownman learn'd a Bishop what you will Wise if a minister but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.
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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
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The grave unites where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!
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See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.
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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.
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Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.
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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
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The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at if we laugh at it, they say we are proud if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.
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