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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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And make each day a critic on the last.
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New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.
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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.
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Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal darkness buries all.
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While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
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Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.
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Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.
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Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
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Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.
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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!
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And more than echoes talk along the walls.
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