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

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
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Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
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The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.
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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
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