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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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And write about it, Goddess, and about it!
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.
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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
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A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.
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Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.
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The enormous faith of many made for one.
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There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.
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It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.
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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
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The grave unites where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!
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Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?
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