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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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It is sure the hardest science to forget!
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Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.
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Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.
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Whatever is, is right.
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
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But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
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The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.
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There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
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Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!
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Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?
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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
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