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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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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
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'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.
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Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.
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A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Order is heaven's first law.
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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
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Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.
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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
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See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.
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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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Hope springs eternal.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?-She wants a heart.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.
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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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