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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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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
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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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At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.
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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
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The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at if we laugh at it, they say we are proud if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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