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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves.
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And make each day a critic on the last.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.
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One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
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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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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
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