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And not a vanity is given in vain.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.
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In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.
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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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An obstinate person does not hold opinions they hold them.
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood All partial evil, universal good.
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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
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Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.
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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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Be niggards of advice on no pretense For the worst avarice is that of sense.
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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.
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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
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