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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
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To err is human to forgive, divine.
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You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
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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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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.
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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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The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!
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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
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