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The grave unites where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's blessed.
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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.
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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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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.
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Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.
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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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Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
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To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.
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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.
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No craving void left aching in the soul.
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What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
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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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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
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