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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Woman's at best a contradiction still.
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Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.
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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
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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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