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Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still A Gownman learn'd a Bishop what you will Wise if a minister but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.
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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
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Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.
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When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
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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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At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.
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Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.
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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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Man, like the generous vine, supported lives the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.
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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions they hold them.
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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
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Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
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