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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.
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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.
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Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
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What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.
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I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. 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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