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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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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
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One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.
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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
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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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A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.
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One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
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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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No more was seen the human form divine.
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Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.
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And not a vanity is given in vain.
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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather and prunello.
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