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Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Hope humbly then with trembling pinions soar Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
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Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.
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The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at if we laugh at it, they say we are proud if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
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These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!
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The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.
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But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
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The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.
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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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With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.
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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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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
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