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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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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
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Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
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Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.
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Is not absence death to those who love?
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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.
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Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.
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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
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False happiness is like false money it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.
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Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.
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Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.
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Nothing is more certain than much of the force as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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