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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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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 unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.
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The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
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When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.
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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
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Wit and judgment often are at strife.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
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See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.
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A mighty maze! But not without a plan.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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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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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
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Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
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