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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between in doubt to act or rest In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast In doubt his mind or body to prefer Born to die, and reasoning but to err.
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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions they hold them.
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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?
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A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
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Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.
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