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These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.
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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.
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No craving void left aching in the soul.
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Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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If, presume not to God to scan The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.
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