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Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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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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Chaos of thought and passion, all confused Still by himself abused or disabused Created half to rise, and half to fall Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.
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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
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So perish all who do the like again.
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So upright Quakers please both man and God.
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The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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No creature smarts so little as a fool.
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Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person they make friendships as kings of old made leagues, who sacrificed some poor animal betwixt them, and commenced strict allies so the ladies, after they have pulled some character to pieces, are from henceforth inviolable friends.
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Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.
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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.
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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
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