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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, ang

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel. – Alexander Pope

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Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind. – Alexander Pope

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One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. – Alexander Pope

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You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live. – Alexander Pope

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