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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
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Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.
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At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.
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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Yes, I am proud I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.
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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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And not a vanity is given in vain.
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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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Order is heaven's first law.
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Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.
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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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With too much quickness ever to be taught With too much thinking to have common thought.
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That each from other differs, first confess next that he varies from himself no less.
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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
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