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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Nay, fly to altars there they'll talk you dead For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
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What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
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There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.
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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
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