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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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Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.
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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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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.
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All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
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Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.
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