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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

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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Who pants for glory, finds but short repose A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
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The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own Or come discolor'd through out passions shown Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.
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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.
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Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
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Cavil you may, but never criticise.
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