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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.
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For forms of government, let fools contest Whate'er is best administered, is best.
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Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's blessed.
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Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
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Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person they make friendships as kings of old made leagues, who sacrificed some poor animal betwixt them, and commenced strict allies so the ladies, after they have pulled some character to pieces, are from henceforth inviolable friends.
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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
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Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.
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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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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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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.
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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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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
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And make each day a critic on the last.
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