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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.
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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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Wit and judgment often are at strife.
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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
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