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

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.
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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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I have more zeal than wit.
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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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The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.
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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.
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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood All partial evil, universal good.
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The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.
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Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
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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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But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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And make each day a critic on the last.
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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
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