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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.
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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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Is not absence death to those who love?
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Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
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All chance, direction, which thou canst not see
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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
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Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.
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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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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
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Words are like Leaves and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.
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The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.
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For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends
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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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Woman's at best a contradiction still.
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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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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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