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It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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Nothing is more certain than much of the force as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.
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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
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Yes, I am proud I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.
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So upright Quakers please both man and God.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
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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.
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