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Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.
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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
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I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
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