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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?
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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
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O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.
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Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
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With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.
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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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The zeal of fools offends at any time.
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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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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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Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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