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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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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.
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Age and want sit smiling at the gate.
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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join To err is human, to forgive, divine.
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Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
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A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.
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Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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