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What bosom beast not in his country's cause?

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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Avoid Extremes and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.
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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.
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There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.
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Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.
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Whatever is, is right.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue.
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The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.
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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.
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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
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Consult the Genius of the Place in all.
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Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
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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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