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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?
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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.
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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.
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There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
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All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood All partial evil, universal good.
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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.
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The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
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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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Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.
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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
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Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!
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