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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.
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Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost contracted all, retiring to the breast but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.
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The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.
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