What future bliss, he gives not thee to know,
But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
(An Essay On Man In Four Epistles: Epistle 1)
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Nothing is more certain than that much of the force, As well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends on their conciseness.Alexander Pope
Loud thunder to its bottom shook the bog, And the hoarse nation croaked, God save King Log'
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Not to admire, is all the art I know To make men happy, and to keep them so.
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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When souls each other draw,
When love is liberty, and nature, law:
All then is full, possessing, and possess'd,
No craving void left aching in the breast:
Ev'n thought meets thought, ere from the lips it part,
And each warm wish springs mutual from the heart.
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The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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