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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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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between in doubt to act or rest In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast In doubt his mind or body to prefer Born to die, and reasoning but to err.
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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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The villain's censure is extorted praise.
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So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
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With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.
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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
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Words are like Leaves and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.
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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
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Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.
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