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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
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And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.
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What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
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Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practice it.
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Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.
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No, make me mistress to the man I love If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
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Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.
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Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
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Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.
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When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
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