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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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Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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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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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
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Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
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