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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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Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.
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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
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Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions they hold them.
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Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
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Yes, I am proud I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.
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Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
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No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
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Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
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Chaos of thought and passion, all confused Still by himself abused or disabused Created half to rise, and half to fall Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.
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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!
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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
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Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.
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