"Who pants for glory finds but short repose: A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows."

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PoetryWorks by Alexander Pope
Original Language: English

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Epistle I, Book II, line 300. Compare: "A breath can make them as a breath has made", Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, line 54.