Pope Felix I

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    The legend of Felix is ended, the toiling of Felix is done;
    The Master has paid him his wages, the goal of his journey is won;
    He rests, but he never is idle; a thousand years pass like a day,
    In the glad surprise of Paradise where work is sweeter than play.
    Henry Van Dyke (1852–1933)

    For wit and judgment often are at strife,
    Though meant each other’s aid, like man and wife.
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    We do not preach great things but we live them.
    —Marcus Minucius Felix (late 2nd or early 3rd ce, Roman Christian apologist. Octavius, 38. 6, trans. by G.H. Rendell.