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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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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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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.
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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.
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With too much quickness ever to be taught With too much thinking to have common thought.
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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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This long disease, my life.
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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
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Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.
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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
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Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still A Gownman learn'd a Bishop what you will Wise if a minister but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.
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