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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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Hope springs eternal.
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No craving void left aching in the soul.
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
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Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield Learn from the beasts the physic of the field The arts of building from the bee receive Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.
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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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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
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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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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather and prunello.
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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.
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Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.
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Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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