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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
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How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
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The zeal of fools offends at any time.
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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
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Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's blessed.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
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In men, we various ruling passions find In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.
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