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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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By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.
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Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.
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Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.
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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
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What bosom beast not in his country's cause?
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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
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I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost contracted all, retiring to the breast but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.
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Consult the Genius of the Place in all.
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