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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!
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.
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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
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Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.
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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.
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Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
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On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
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There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.
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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
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Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
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And more than echoes talk along the walls.
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.
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