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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
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What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?
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For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.
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Cavil you may, but never criticise.
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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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Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.
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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 zeal of fools offends at any time.
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Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.
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