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Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not

Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly. – Alexander Pope

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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Natures God. – Alexander Pope

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God
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One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit. – Alexander Pope

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Art
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Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike;
Alike reservd to blame, or to commend,
A timrous foe, and a suspicious friend. – Alexander Pope

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Satire
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The eyes of the lord are in every place seeing the evil and the good. – Bible

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What the eye does not admire the heart does not desire. – Proverb

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It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture. – Benjamin Franklin

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Eyes

Her eyes are homes of silent prayers. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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