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chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.
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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
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To Him no high, no low, no great, no small He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all!
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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
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Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
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Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.
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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.
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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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