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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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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The enormous faith of many made for one.
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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
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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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There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.
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Cavil you may, but never criticise.
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No, make me mistress to the man I love If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
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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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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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