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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.
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All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood All partial evil, universal good.
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