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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.
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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
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What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue.
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Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
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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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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue
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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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