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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal darkness buries all.
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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
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So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
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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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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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So upright Quakers please both man and God.
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The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy.
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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
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Who pants for glory, finds but short repose A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between in doubt to act or rest In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast In doubt his mind or body to prefer Born to die, and reasoning but to err.
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