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If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
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A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.
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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
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In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
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