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I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.
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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
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Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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