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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, 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 glorify their Father in heaven.
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A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.
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O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.
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False happiness is like false money it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
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The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
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Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.
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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
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It is sure the hardest science to forget!
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Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
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Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.
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