Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in…

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Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree. ✨ Alexander Pope (1848). “The” Select Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With the Life and Portrait of the Author, p.194
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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole. ✨ Alexander Pope (1835). The Works of Alexander Pope, p.39
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light! ✨ Epitaph: Intended for Sir Isaac Newton l. 1 (1730) See Squire 1
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. ✨ Alexander Pope (1835). The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly, p.66

Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree. ✨ Alexander Pope (1848). “The” Select Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With the Life and Portrait of the Author, p.194

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