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Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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Hope springs eternal.
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Astrologers that future fates foreshow.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
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Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.
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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoyIs it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?
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Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.
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I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
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