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Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
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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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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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