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From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, as a king's favorite or a king.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?
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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
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But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
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A field of glory is a field for all.
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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
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Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.
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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
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Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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The proper study of Mankind is Man.
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You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
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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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And empty heads console with empty sound.
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Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.
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