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The enormous faith of many made for one.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.
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The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.
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One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.
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Then sculpture and her sister arts revived stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.
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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
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Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
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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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Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.
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So perish all who do the like again.
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See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.
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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
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Nothing is more certain than much of the force as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.
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Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.
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If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friends motions and inclinations, he possesses this in a eminent degree he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more than many good friends can pretend to do.
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Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.
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