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Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?

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 thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]
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All nature's diff'rence keeps all nature's peace.
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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
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I am his Highness' dog at Kew Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
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Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it
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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.
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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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The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
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Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's blessed.
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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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