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Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!
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Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!
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Passions are the gales of life.
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Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
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Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.
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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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Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost contracted all, retiring to the breast but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
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