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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.
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To err is human to forgive, divine.
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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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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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.
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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .
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