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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.
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Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.
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Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.
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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.
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Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!
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She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.
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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
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Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.
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A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!
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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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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.
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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
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Then sculpture and her sister arts revived stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.
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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
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