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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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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.
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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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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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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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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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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?
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Cavil you may, but never criticise.
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New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.
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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.
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The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
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Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .
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Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
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Is not absence death to those who love?
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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