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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
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The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at if we laugh at it, they say we are proud if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!
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And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
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The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.
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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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All chance, direction, which thou canst not see
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
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And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.
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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
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Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.
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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
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The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own Or come discolor'd through out passions shown Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.
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Chaos of thought and passion, all confused Still by himself abused or disabused Created half to rise, and half to fall Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.
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