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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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 see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!
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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost contracted all, retiring to the breast but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
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At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.
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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
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The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.
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Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
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Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.
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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.
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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves.
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Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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