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A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.

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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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With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.
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Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.
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Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.
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Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
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It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.
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Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between in doubt to act or rest In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast In doubt his mind or body to prefer Born to die, and reasoning but to err.
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chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
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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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To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.
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Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?
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Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.
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