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Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Farewell

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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Search then the ruling passion there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known The fool consistent, and the false sincere Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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