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A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.
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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.
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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
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Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.
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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
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For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.
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Cavil you may, but never criticise.
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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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See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.
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No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.
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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.
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Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's blessed.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
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Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.
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