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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?
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Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.
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Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.
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You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
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To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
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Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.
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Astrologers that future fates foreshow.
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Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!
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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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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
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These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!
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Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.
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