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Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.
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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
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Search then the ruling passion there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known The fool consistent, and the false sincere Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
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The light of Heaven restore Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.
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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
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But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!
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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
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