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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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Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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Woman's at best a contradiction still.
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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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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Astrologers that future fates foreshow.
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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
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Women use lovers as they do cards they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.
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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
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The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
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Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.
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