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Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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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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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
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No craving void left aching in the soul.
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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
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A mighty maze! But not without a plan.
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Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
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Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.
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There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.
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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
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Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
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'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.
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