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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace if not, by any means get wealth and place.
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.
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When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.
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The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.
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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.
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Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
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