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Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
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In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
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Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.
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Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.
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See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.
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Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
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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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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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