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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes At every word a reputation dies.
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Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.
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Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
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While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
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Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!
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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.
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Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man A mighty maze! but not without a plan.
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Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.
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Age and want sit smiling at the gate.
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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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