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Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
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Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.
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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
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Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.
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Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.
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The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.
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Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.
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There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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