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Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Alexander I Pope
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Heaven

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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
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Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's blessed.
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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.
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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.
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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
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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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Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.
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Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
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Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man A mighty maze! but not without a plan.
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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
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It is sure the hardest science to forget!
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