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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's blessed.
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Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.
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Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.
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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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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
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