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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.
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How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
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What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
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No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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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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The light of Heaven restore Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
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The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still A Gownman learn'd a Bishop what you will Wise if a minister but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Man, like the generous vine, supported lives the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.
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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
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A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.
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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
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