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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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No, make me mistress to the man I love If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
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All nature's diff'rence keeps all nature's peace.
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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.
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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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