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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
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So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
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Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.
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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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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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She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.
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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
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Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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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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And write about it, Goddess, and about it!
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The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.
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Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?
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Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!
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