See how the force of others' pray'rs I try,
(O pious fraud of am'rous charity!
(Eloisa To Abelard)
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.Alexander Pope
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Launch not beyond your Depth, but be discreet,
And mark that Point where Sense and Dulness meet.
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Why did I write what sin to me unknown; Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own.
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Why pique all mortals, yet affect a name?
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Come thou, my father, brother, husband, friend!
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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
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