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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
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Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.
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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
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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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Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.
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It is sure the hardest science to forget!
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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
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Avoid Extremes and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.
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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
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Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
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The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.
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Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.
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Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.
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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
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