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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
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If, presume not to God to scan The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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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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Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still A Gownman learn'd a Bishop what you will Wise if a minister but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.
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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.
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Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.
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The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Stanza 1.
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Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.
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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?
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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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