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Judges and senates have been bought for gold Esteem and love were never to be sold.
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 people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.
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Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still A Gownman learn'd a Bishop what you will Wise if a minister but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
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These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!
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To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.
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So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.
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See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.
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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue
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