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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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In death a hero, as in life a friend!
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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
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Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man A mighty maze! but not without a plan.
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Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
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Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try, And ring suspected vessels ere they buy But wives, a random choice, untried they take They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away, And all the woman glares in open day.
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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
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Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.
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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace. But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.
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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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