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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal darkness buries all.
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She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.
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With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
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Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!
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What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
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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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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.
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Chaos of thought and passion, all confused Still by himself abused or disabused Created half to rise, and half to fall Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.
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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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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
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She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.
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