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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.
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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
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Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).
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The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.
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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.
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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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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
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Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield Learn from the beasts the physic of the field The arts of building from the bee receive Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.
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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.
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And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.
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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
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One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.
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At ev'ry word a reputation dies.
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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
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The light of Heaven restore Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
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