Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
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By foreign hands thy dying eyes were closed, By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned, By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.Alexander Pope
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To what base Ends, and by what abject Ways,
Are Mortals urg'd thro' Sacred Lust of praise!
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Fired that the house reject him, 'Sdeath I'll print it, And shame the fools.'
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
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