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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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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.
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The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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A field of glory is a field for all.
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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
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Superstition is the spleen of the soul.
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In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.
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That each from other differs, first confess next that he varies from himself no less.
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There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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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 race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.
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