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To Him no high, no low, no great, no small He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all!

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
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Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
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What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
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It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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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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A long, exact, and serious comedy In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.
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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
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