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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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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.
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Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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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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Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.
Alexander Pope
At ev'ry word a reputation dies.
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Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.
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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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In death a hero, as in life a friend!
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Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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Age and want sit smiling at the gate.
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Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.
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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
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A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practice it.
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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
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