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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.
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And make each day a critic on the last.
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Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.
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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
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With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.
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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
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Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
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Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try, And ring suspected vessels ere they buy But wives, a random choice, untried they take They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away, And all the woman glares in open day.
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