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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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When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.
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Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!
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You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
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Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves.
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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.
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Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.
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