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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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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
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To err is human to forgive, divine.
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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
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Consult the Genius of the Place in all.
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Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.
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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join To err is human, to forgive, divine.
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Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
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If, presume not to God to scan The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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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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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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The zeal of fools offends at any time.
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No, make me mistress to the man I love If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
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There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity both being equally subject to change.
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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.
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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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