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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
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Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
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Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.
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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
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Tis true, 'tis certain man, though dead, retains Part of himself the immortal mind remains.
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The enormous faith of many made for one.
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Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
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So perish all who do the like again.
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.
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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
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Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's blessed.
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The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Stanza 1.
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How vast a memory has Love!
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The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
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Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.
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See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.
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With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?-She wants a heart.
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A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practice it.
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