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Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?
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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
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While man exclaims, See all things for my use! See man for mine! replies a pamper'd goose.
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Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.
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When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.
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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.
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Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.
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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue
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Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
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