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The good must merit God's peculiar care But who but God can tell us who they are?

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
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'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.
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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace if not, by any means get wealth and place.
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.
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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
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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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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
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