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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 fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.
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A perfect woman's but a softer man.
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With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?-She wants a heart.
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Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.
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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?
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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
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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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