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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
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Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?
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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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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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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
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A field of glory is a field for all.
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These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!
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The enormous faith of many made for one.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
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Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.
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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.
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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
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Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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