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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.
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Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.
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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.
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For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends
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Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.
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But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.
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No, make me mistress to the man I love If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
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The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
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Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.
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With too much quickness ever to be taught With too much thinking to have common thought.
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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
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On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
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