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A field of glory is a field for all.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!
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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
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Every woman is at heart a rake.
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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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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.
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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
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There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.
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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.
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Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.
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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal darkness buries all.
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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
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Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.
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Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four?
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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
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