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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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Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
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And not a vanity is given in vain.
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But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
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Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.
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So upright Quakers please both man and God.
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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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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.
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Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
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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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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
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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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Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
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Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
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