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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Hope springs eternal.
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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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Age and want sit smiling at the gate.
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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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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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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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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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.
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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
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Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.
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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!
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Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
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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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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.
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Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.
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