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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.
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As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
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For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.
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There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood All partial evil, universal good.
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There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.
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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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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.
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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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