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Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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That each from other differs, first confess next that he varies from himself no less.
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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.
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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
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While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
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The grave unites where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!
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Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.
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