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How vast a memory has Love!

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
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Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.
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Every woman is at heart a rake.
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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.
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But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.
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Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
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Then sculpture and her sister arts revived stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.
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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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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.
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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace. But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.
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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
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Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.
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Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
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