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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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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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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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The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
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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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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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Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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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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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
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Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.
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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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Most authors steal their works, or buy.
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The zeal of fools offends at any time.
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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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