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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
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Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's blessed.
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Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.
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To err is human to forgive, divine.
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If, presume not to God to scan The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
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