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Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's blessed.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
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Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.
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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
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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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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
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Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.
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No more was seen the human form divine.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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