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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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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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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
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How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?
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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.
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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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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
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To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.
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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
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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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