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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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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between in doubt to act or rest In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast In doubt his mind or body to prefer Born to die, and reasoning but to err.
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The grave unites where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!
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Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.
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There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day.
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own Or come discolor'd through out passions shown Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.
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In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.
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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.
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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
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Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.
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Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.
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