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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between in doubt to act or rest In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast In doubt his mind or body to prefer Born to die, and reasoning but to err.
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!
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Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?
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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.
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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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Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.
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What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost contracted all, retiring to the breast but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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