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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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It is sure the hardest science to forget!
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
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Superstition is the spleen of the soul.
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And write about it, Goddess, and about it!
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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
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And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
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Not always actions show the man we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
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Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.
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Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
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