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So upright Quakers please both man and God.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
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When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
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The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
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The villain's censure is extorted praise.
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But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.
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Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
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How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
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But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
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