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Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Whatever is, is right.
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?
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Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person they make friendships as kings of old made leagues, who sacrificed some poor animal betwixt them, and commenced strict allies so the ladies, after they have pulled some character to pieces, are from henceforth inviolable friends.
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.
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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
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Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.
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Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
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In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.
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Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.
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Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield Learn from the beasts the physic of the field The arts of building from the bee receive Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.
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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
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If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
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