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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Nay, fly to altars there they'll talk you dead For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.
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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
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Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.
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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.
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Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?
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Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
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In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.
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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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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
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To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
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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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A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.
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To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.
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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
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