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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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Poet
Translator
the City
Pope the Poet
Alexander I Pope
Alexander
I Pope
Giving
Ajax
Restore
Asks
Heaven
Light
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]
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Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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As with narrow-necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.
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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?
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Nay, fly to altars there they'll talk you dead For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.
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Is not absence death to those who love?
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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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