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Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.
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In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
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Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!
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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
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The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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