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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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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
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Order is heaven's first law.
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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
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Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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The proper study of Mankind is Man.
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.
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How vast a memory has Love!
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No more was seen the human form divine.
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There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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