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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.
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If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!
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The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.
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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.
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Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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Hope springs eternal.
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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue
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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
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What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
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The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
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Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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In men, we various ruling passions find In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
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To err is human to forgive, divine.
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The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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Astrologers that future fates foreshow.
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