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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.
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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.
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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.
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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.
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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
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The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
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O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.
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All nature's diff'rence keeps all nature's peace.
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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
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Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.
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Cavil you may, but never criticise.
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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
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Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.
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