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Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.
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Tis true, 'tis certain man, though dead, retains Part of himself the immortal mind remains.
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In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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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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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
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From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, as a king's favorite or a king.
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A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.
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Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
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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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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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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
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