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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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Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!
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The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.
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Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.
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Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.
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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
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There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.
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To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.
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I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.
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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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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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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
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Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.
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Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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