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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Then sculpture and her sister arts revived stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.
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Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.
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Virtue alone is happiness below.
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Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.
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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.
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Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!
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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
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Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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That each from other differs, first confess next that he varies from himself no less.
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