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Order is Heaven's first law and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Whatever is, is right.
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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
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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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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue
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The villain's censure is extorted praise.
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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
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False happiness is like false money it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
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Most authors steal their works, or buy.
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There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.
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Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.
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There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
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The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
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These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!
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Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.
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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.
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