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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
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And empty heads console with empty sound.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
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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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If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friends motions and inclinations, he possesses this in a eminent degree he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more than many good friends can pretend to do.
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Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?
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Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
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To Him no high, no low, no great, no small He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all!
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.
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Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.
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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
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