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Health consists with temperance alone.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Alone

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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal darkness buries all.
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Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.
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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace. But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
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Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.
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