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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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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
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Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.
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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.
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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.
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There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity both being equally subject to change.
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Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.
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Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.
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The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.
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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
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Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.
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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
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The villain's censure is extorted praise.
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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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'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.
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