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All chance, direction, which thou canst not see

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
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A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practice it.
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And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.
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A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
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Then sculpture and her sister arts revived stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.
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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
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Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
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Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
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Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
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Judge not of actions by their mere effect Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
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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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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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