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A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).
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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
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I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
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No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.
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True self-love and social are the same.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.
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