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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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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
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And more than echoes talk along the walls.
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The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.
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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
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Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
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Order is heaven's first law.
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What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.
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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.
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