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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
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Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.
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In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.
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