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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
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I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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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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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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