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So upright Quakers please both man and God.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace if not, by any means get wealth and place.
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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace. But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!
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Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.
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So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Health consists with temperance alone.
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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
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Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!
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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.
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Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four?
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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A field of glory is a field for all.
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A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
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