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

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal darkness buries all.
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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
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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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To Him no high, no low, no great, no small He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all!
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A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
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A field of glory is a field for all.
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.
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Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.
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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
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New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.
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I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.
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Virtue alone is happiness below.
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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
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A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.
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The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.
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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
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