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Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.
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Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.
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There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.
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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
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A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.
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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
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Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!
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The good must merit God's peculiar care But who but God can tell us who they are?
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With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?-She wants a heart.
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