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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
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Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.
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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.
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Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.
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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
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Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.
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O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.
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All chance, direction, which thou canst not see
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Order is heaven's first law.
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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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Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.
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Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.
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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
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