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But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.
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There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity both being equally subject to change.
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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace. But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!
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Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
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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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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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Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
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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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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
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Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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