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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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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.
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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.
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Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.
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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
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A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.
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Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.
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It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.
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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
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I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
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In men, we various ruling passions find In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
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Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.
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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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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
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