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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
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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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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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Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?
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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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