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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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The good must merit God's peculiar care But who but God can tell us who they are?
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Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.
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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
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Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.
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Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
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With too much quickness ever to be taught With too much thinking to have common thought.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.
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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
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The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
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But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!
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In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.
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Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between in doubt to act or rest In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast In doubt his mind or body to prefer Born to die, and reasoning but to err.
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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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Wit and judgment often are at strife.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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