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No craving void left aching in the soul.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.
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Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
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Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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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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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
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