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Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
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Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own
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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.
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Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
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How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.
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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.
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