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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
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The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.
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What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.
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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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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
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The villain's censure is extorted praise.
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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
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But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?
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Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?
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Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's blessed.
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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.
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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?
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All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.
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Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
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How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.
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While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.
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