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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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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.
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Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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The light of Heaven restore Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
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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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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
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