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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.
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I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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