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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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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.
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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
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Woman's at best a contradiction still.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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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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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
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I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.
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But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
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The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
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Search then the ruling passion there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known The fool consistent, and the false sincere Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
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