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O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.
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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.
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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
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A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.
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False happiness is like false money it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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This long disease, my life.
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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
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And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
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See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.
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