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The light of Heaven restore Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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In men, we various ruling passions find In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
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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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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
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