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

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!
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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join To err is human, to forgive, divine.
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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