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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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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.
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And empty heads console with empty sound.
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To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.
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The grave unites where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!
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The heart resolves this matter in a trice, Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.
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Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
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