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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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Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.
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Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.
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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
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By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.
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So perish all who do the like again.
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The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four?
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All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.
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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
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Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.
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Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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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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