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Virtue alone is happiness below.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
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A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practice it.
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Nay, fly to altars there they'll talk you dead For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
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The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
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Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.
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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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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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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.
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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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