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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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Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
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Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.
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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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There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.
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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
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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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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at if we laugh at it, they say we are proud if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
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No craving void left aching in the soul.
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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
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