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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
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Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.
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The grave unites where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!
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Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?
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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
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