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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.
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A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.
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The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.
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If, presume not to God to scan The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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But honest instinct comes a volunteer Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
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Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
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Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
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No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.
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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
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Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?
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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
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Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's blessed.
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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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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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When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.
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Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!
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Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try, And ring suspected vessels ere they buy But wives, a random choice, untried they take They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away, And all the woman glares in open day.
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