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

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.
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The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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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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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
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Who pants for glory, finds but short repose A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
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There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity both being equally subject to change.
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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
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Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
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What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
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Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.
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Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
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