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Dogs, ye have had your day!

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
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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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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
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Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.
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Mankind is unamendable.
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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
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