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Virtue alone is happiness below.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.
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A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.
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Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.
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No, make me mistress to the man I love If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.
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