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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.
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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.
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In death a hero, as in life a friend!
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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own Or come discolor'd through out passions shown Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!
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For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.
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Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
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No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
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And more than echoes talk along the walls.
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The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.
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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.
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No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.
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While man exclaims, See all things for my use! See man for mine! replies a pamper'd goose.
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Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.
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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
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Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.
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