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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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The laughers are a majority.
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Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.
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Cavil you may, but never criticise.
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You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
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Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
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Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?
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Never find fault with the absent.
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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
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Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
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In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
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