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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between in doubt to act or rest In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast In doubt his mind or body to prefer Born to die, and reasoning but to err.
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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.
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The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.
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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?
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Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
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Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.
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Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
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A field of glory is a field for all.
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Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!
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In men, we various ruling passions find In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
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Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield Learn from the beasts the physic of the field The arts of building from the bee receive Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.
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