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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost contracted all, retiring to the breast but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
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The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.
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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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As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.
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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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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
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Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.
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Then sculpture and her sister arts revived stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
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What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.
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Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still A Gownman learn'd a Bishop what you will Wise if a minister but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.
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Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.
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Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.
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Nothing is more certain than much of the force as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.
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Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
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