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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.
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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
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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 those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
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Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.
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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
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One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.
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Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.
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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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This long disease, my life.
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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
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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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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
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Superstition is the spleen of the soul.
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No more was seen the human form divine.
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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join To err is human, to forgive, divine.
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