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Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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And empty heads console with empty sound.
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between in doubt to act or rest In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast In doubt his mind or body to prefer Born to die, and reasoning but to err.
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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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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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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
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Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?
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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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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.
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To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
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A perfect woman's but a softer man.
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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.
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