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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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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace if not, by any means get wealth and place.
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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.
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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost contracted all, retiring to the breast but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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