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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
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Is not absence death to those who love?
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Hope humbly then with trembling pinions soar Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
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The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).
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And not a vanity is given in vain.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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But honest instinct comes a volunteer Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
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Judge not of actions by their mere effect Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
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Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
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Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.
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