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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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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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The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.
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Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
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A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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Superstition is the spleen of the soul.
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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
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Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
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The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.
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And more than echoes talk along the walls.
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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
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