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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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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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Man, like the generous vine, supported lives the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.
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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.
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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
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Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
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A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
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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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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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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
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It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.
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Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!
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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
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Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.
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The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
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