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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
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At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.
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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.
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But honest instinct comes a volunteer Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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Order is heaven's first law.
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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather and prunello.
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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Mankind is unamendable.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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