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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.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.
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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
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Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.
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