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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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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
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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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See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly!
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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.
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Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four?
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For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.
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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.
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Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.
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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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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.
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