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Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
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Hope humbly then with trembling pinions soar Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
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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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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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Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, as a king's favorite or a king.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves.
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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.
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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.
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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
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At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.
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Virtue alone is happiness below.
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The good must merit God's peculiar care But who but God can tell us who they are?
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You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
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And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.
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With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?-She wants a heart.
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