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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man A mighty maze! but not without a plan.
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Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
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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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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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There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.
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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.
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Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.
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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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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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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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Woman's at best a contradiction still.
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The good must merit God's peculiar care But who but God can tell us who they are?
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.
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Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
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