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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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No craving void left aching in the soul.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
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