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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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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
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Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.
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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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Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?
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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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All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]
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A field of glory is a field for all.
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The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.
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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
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To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.
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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.
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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
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