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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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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.
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Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
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Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.
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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
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Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
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To Him no high, no low, no great, no small He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all!
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between in doubt to act or rest In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast In doubt his mind or body to prefer Born to die, and reasoning but to err.
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