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A mighty maze! But not without a plan.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.
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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
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Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
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Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.
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Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.
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