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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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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
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Judges and senates have been bought for gold Esteem and love were never to be sold.
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Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man A mighty maze! but not without a plan.
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There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.
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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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