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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
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A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.
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Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.
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I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
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The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy.
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
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