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An honest man's the noblest work of God.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
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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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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.
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The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
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The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.
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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.
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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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