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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.
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With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?-She wants a heart.
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The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at if we laugh at it, they say we are proud if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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For forms of government, let fools contest Whate'er is best administered, is best.
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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace. But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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