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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
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Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.
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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
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But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.
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Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.
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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.
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Astrologers that future fates foreshow.
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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And not a vanity is given in vain.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.
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Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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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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