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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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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
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Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still A Gownman learn'd a Bishop what you will Wise if a minister but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.
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True self-love and social are the same.
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Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield Learn from the beasts the physic of the field The arts of building from the bee receive Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.
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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
Alexander Pope
The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.
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The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
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Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
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All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]
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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
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Virtue alone is happiness below.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Alexander Pope
Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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