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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.
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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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Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?
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