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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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Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
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Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.
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Every woman is at heart a rake.
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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
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Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
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It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.
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