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One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.
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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?
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There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity both being equally subject to change.
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Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
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I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
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While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
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