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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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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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A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.
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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
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Hope springs eternal.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.
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Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?
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With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?-She wants a heart.
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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
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Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
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Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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