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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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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
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The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.
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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.
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Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
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How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
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