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Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
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There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.
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O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.
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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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Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
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When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.
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Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
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I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.
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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
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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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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
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Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoyIs it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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