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Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Alexander I Pope
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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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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.
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Virtue alone is happiness below.
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Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!
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Yes, I am proud I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.
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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.
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Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
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To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
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chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.
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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
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