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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.
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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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