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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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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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Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
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Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
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There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
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She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.
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No more was seen the human form divine.
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
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Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.
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Cavil you may, but never criticise.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
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The zeal of fools offends at any time.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
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Virtue alone is happiness below.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
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