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From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, as a king's favorite or a king.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.
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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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Cavil you may, but never criticise.
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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.
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A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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The grave unites where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!
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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
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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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Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.
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Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four?
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Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.
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Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.
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If, presume not to God to scan The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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