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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
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Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.
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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.
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Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoyIs it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?
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At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.
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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
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Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!
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Passions are the gales of life.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.
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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
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It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.
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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
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