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The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.
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That each from other differs, first confess next that he varies from himself no less.
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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
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See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly!
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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
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Yes, I am proud I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.
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Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!
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If, presume not to God to scan The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.
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On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
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