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No more was seen the human form divine.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.
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The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.
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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.
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There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity both being equally subject to change.
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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.
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Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.
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Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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So upright Quakers please both man and God.
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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