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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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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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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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Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!
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