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

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The laughers are a majority.
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'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.
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Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost contracted all, retiring to the breast but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Age and want sit smiling at the gate.
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Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's blessed.
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.
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