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Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.
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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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Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.
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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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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.
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A perfect woman's but a softer man.
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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Who pants for glory, finds but short repose A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
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With too much quickness ever to be taught With too much thinking to have common thought.
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