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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
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Wit and judgment often are at strife.
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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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Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.
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Be niggards of advice on no pretense For the worst avarice is that of sense.
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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.
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There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.
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