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All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood All partial evil, universal good.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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