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A long, exact, and serious comedy In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.
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Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.
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It is sure the hardest science to forget!
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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
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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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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
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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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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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The light of Heaven restore Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
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Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
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Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.
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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather and prunello.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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