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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!
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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
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Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
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The grave unites where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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