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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Whatever is, is right.
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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
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Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
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Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.
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Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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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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Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?
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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.
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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
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Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
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Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.
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