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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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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood All partial evil, universal good.
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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
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Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
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No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
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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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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
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How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
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What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
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