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With too much quickness ever to be taught With too much thinking to have common thought.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.
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