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Mankind is unamendable.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?
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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.
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The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.
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Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.
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Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
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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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Order is Heaven's first law and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.
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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.
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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
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