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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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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.
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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.
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