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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!
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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
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O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
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