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Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.
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Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.
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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.
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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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Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.
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Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
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