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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
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Woman's at best a contradiction still.
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Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.
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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.
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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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Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person they make friendships as kings of old made leagues, who sacrificed some poor animal betwixt them, and commenced strict allies so the ladies, after they have pulled some character to pieces, are from henceforth inviolable friends.
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A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.
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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.
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A perfect woman's but a softer man.
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between in doubt to act or rest In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast In doubt his mind or body to prefer Born to die, and reasoning but to err.
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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.
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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
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Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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While man exclaims, See all things for my use! See man for mine! replies a pamper'd goose.
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
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Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.
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Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.
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