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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
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But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
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Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
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The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy.
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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
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Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.
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And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
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Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.
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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
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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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