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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
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Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.
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There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.
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Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.
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What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
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At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.
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Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
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So upright Quakers please both man and God.
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The good must merit God's peculiar care But who but God can tell us who they are?
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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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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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Judges and senates have been bought for gold Esteem and love were never to be sold.
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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.
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There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
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Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.
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A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!
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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
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