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So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.
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There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.
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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather and prunello.
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.
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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
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Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.
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No, make me mistress to the man I love If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.
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There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.
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