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No more was seen the human form divine.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.
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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.
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Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.
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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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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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Search then the ruling passion there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known The fool consistent, and the false sincere Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
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What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
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Genius involves both envy and calumny.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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