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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.
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Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.
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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
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One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.
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False happiness is like false money it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
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Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!
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Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!
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At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .
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Genius involves both envy and calumny.
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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.
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Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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Wit and judgment often are at strife.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
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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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