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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
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The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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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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No, make me mistress to the man I love If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
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What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
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