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Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
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Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!
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She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
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No craving void left aching in the soul.
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A king may be a tool, a thing of straw but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.
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Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.
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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.
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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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The enormous faith of many made for one.
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.
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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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