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Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.
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No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.
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Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.
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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
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The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
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See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.
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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.
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Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it
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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
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Chaos of thought and passion, all confused Still by himself abused or disabused Created half to rise, and half to fall Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.
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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
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