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What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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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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In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
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Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.
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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
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For forms of government, let fools contest Whate'er is best administered, is best.
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If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
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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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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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The light of Heaven restore Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
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With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.
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True self-love and social are the same.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.
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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
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Woman's at best a contradiction still.
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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
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Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.
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The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
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