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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.
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One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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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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Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.
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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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