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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.
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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
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Nothing is more certain than much of the force as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.
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