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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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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.
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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
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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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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
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Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.
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With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.
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The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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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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