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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
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Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
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The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
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If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
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Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.
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But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.
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Order is heaven's first law.
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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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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
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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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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
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Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
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chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.
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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
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