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Yes, I am proud I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.
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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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In men, we various ruling passions find In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
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A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.
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'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.
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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
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Be niggards of advice on no pretense For the worst avarice is that of sense.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
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Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.
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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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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
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With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?-She wants a heart.
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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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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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