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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.
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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.
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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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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
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