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Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
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Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.
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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
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Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.
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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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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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Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.
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Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
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If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!
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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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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.
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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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