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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?
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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
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Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.
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Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
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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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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
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