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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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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
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Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.
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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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Man, like the generous vine, supported lives the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.
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Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
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I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
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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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