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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
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Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!
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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
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Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!
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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.
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I am his Highness' dog at Kew Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
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Mankind is unamendable.
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A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.
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Yes, I am proud I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.
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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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