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Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
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Judge not of actions by their mere effect Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
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