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How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
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Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
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Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.
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No, make me mistress to the man I love If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
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Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try, And ring suspected vessels ere they buy But wives, a random choice, untried they take They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away, And all the woman glares in open day.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.
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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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Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.
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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
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Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
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Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
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And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
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