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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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The heart resolves this matter in a trice, Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.
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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
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Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.
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The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.
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Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
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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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All nature's diff'rence keeps all nature's peace.
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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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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
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A mighty maze! But not without a plan.
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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join To err is human, to forgive, divine.
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No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.
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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
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