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"Thoughts on Various Subjects"
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Date: 1737, 1743
"Some Men’s Wit is like a dark Lanthorn, which serves their own Turn, and guides them their own Way; but is never known (according to the Scripture Phrase) either to 'shine forth before Men', or to 'glorifie their Father who is in Heaven'."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)