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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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Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.
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Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions they hold them.
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Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
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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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No more was seen the human form divine.
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In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.
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Judge not of actions by their mere effect Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
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Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!
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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
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And empty heads console with empty sound.
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Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.
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Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.
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