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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.
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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try, And ring suspected vessels ere they buy But wives, a random choice, untried they take They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away, And all the woman glares in open day.
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Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?
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So upright Quakers please both man and God.
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Astrologers that future fates foreshow.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
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The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.
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Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.
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Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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But honest instinct comes a volunteer Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
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In death a hero, as in life a friend!
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chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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