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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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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
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I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
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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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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.
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Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?
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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.
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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.
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A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.
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Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoyIs it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?
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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
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But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!
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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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