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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, as a king's favorite or a king.
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Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.
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Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.
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Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
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How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
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No creature smarts so little as a fool.
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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
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In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.
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But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?
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Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.
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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
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Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
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