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

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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That each from other differs, first confess next that he varies from himself no less.
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
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A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!
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Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.
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The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
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Chaos of thought and passion, all confused Still by himself abused or disabused Created half to rise, and half to fall Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.
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Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.
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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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