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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.
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A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
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How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.
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Judge not of actions by their mere effect Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
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To err is human to forgive, divine.
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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?
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As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.
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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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Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.
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Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
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Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions they hold them.
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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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