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Thoughts of Alexander Pope

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Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev’n to gods is misery.

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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.

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A wit’s a feather, and a chief a rod; An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

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A green old age, unconscious of decays, That proves the hero born in better days.

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Fair tresses man’s imperial race insnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.

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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

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Oh woman, woman! when to ill thy mind, Is bent, all hell contains no fouler fiend.

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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

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Unblemish’d let me live, or die unknown; O grant an honest fame, or grant me none!

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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundic’d eye.

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