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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.
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It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still A Gownman learn'd a Bishop what you will Wise if a minister but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.
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Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.
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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
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