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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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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.
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It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.
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Search then the ruling passion there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known The fool consistent, and the false sincere Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
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Not always actions show the man we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
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Say first, of god above or man below what can we reason but from what we know.
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The zeal of fools offends at any time.
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No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves.
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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.
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Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
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