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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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The light of Heaven restore Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.
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A king may be a tool, a thing of straw but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.
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There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.
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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
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A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.
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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.
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What bosom beast not in his country's cause?
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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
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Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
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