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Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.
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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.
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Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.
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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
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The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.
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Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.
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