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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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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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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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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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Words are like Leaves and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
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Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
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For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends
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Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.
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