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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
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The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.
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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
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Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.
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Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.
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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
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Genius creates, and taste preserves.
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The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.
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To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.
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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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