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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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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.
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A king may be a tool, a thing of straw but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.
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The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.
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The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
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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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In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.
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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
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The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy.
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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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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.
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