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One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
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Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
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Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
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Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
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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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Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.
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Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.
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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
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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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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.
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A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
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A perfect woman's but a softer man.
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A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practice it.
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