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The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.
Alexander Pope
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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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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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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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A long, exact, and serious comedy In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
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What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
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Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.
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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
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Women use lovers as they do cards they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
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Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
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