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As with narrow-necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.
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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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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
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Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.
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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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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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Women use lovers as they do cards they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy.
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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
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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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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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This long disease, my life.
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