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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.
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Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.
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Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.
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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
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The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
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Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.
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She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.
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The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Stanza 1.
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The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at if we laugh at it, they say we are proud if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.
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Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person they make friendships as kings of old made leagues, who sacrificed some poor animal betwixt them, and commenced strict allies so the ladies, after they have pulled some character to pieces, are from henceforth inviolable friends.
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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
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And more than echoes talk along the walls.
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So perish all who do the like again.
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The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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