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

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
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What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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In death a hero, as in life a friend!
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!
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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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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
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Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
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The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
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It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.
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Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!
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Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.
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That each from other differs, first confess next that he varies from himself no less.
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