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

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
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Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.
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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace. But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
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