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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
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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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Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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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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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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