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Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
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Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
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Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.
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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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Say first, of god above or man below what can we reason but from what we know.
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.
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Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join To err is human, to forgive, divine.
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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
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