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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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Search then the ruling passion there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known The fool consistent, and the false sincere Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
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Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.
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Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!
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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace. But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.
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