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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
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Not always actions show the man we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
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The grave unites where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!
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