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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Blest

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It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.
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Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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And make each day a critic on the last.
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See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly!
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Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.
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Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man A mighty maze! but not without a plan.
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But honest instinct comes a volunteer Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!
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Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
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Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!
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Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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