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Then sculpture and her sister arts revived stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.
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