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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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To err is human to forgive, divine.
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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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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
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In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.
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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
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A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.
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Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
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There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.
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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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Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.
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