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

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Never find fault with the absent.
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Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.
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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.
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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
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Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.
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Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.
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The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.
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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue
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To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
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Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.
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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
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