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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Virtue alone is happiness below.
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.
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Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
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With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.
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No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
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Hope humbly then with trembling pinions soar Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
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Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
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Consult the Genius of the Place in all.
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