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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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Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
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Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.
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Mankind is unamendable.
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Superstition is the spleen of the soul.
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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!
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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
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Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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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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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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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.
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Health consists with temperance alone.
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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
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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 nature wants, commodious gold bestows 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.
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