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True self-love and social are the same.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man A mighty maze! but not without a plan.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
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The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
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Yes, I am proud I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.
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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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The laughers are a majority.
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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join To err is human, to forgive, divine.
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False happiness is like false money it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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Women use lovers as they do cards they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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