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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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Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
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There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.
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Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.
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O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
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Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.
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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
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Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.
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There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity both being equally subject to change.
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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]
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Nothing is more certain than much of the force as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.
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The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
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