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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.
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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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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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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
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Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
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Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.
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Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.
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Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.
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Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
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Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.
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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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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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Dogs, ye have had your day!
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