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

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions they hold them.
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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
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If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.
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I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
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Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.
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Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
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The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
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Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
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Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?
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