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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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Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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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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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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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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Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.
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What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?
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The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
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The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
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All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.
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The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.
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These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!
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When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
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