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Say first, of god above or man below what can we reason but from what we know.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
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In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.
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Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.
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Hope humbly then with trembling pinions soar Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
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Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.
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How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?
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I have more zeal than wit.
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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
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Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
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