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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
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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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Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.
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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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No craving void left aching in the soul.
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Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.
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Woman's at best a contradiction still.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions they hold them.
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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace if not, by any means get wealth and place.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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