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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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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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Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
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Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!
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The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.
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chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.
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The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.
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But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.
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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
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How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?
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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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A king may be a tool, a thing of straw but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.
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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
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Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.
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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
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