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The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).
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Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoyIs it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?
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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
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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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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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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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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
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Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.
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I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's blessed.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
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See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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