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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.
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New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.
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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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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
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Age and want sit smiling at the gate.
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Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
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The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.
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But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
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Say first, of god above or man below what can we reason but from what we know.
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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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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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And not a vanity is given in vain.
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Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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