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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
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To err is human to forgive, divine.
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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
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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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Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
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Words are like Leaves and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
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