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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
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It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.
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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions they hold them.
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