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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.
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Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
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Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
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One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still A Gownman learn'd a Bishop what you will Wise if a minister but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.
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Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
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Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.
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Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
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Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.
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Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
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That each from other differs, first confess next that he varies from himself no less.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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