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Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.
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Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
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Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.
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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.
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No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.
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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
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But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
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Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
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Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
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