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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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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
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At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.
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Virtue alone is happiness below.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.
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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
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Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.
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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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The villain's censure is extorted praise.
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It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.
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