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The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Man, like the generous vine, supported lives the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.
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Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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A field of glory is a field for all.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
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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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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them
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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
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Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.
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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
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Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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Be niggards of advice on no pretense For the worst avarice is that of sense.
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