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The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
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Superstition is the spleen of the soul.
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A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.
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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
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Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
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But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.
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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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If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
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Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's blessed.
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Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it
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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
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With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?-She wants a heart.
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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue
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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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