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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The laughers are a majority.
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All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.
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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.
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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace. But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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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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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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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.
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With too much quickness ever to be taught With too much thinking to have common thought.
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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.
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