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Order is Heaven's first law and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between in doubt to act or rest In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast In doubt his mind or body to prefer Born to die, and reasoning but to err.
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The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
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It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
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Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.
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But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?
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Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four?
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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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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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.
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To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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