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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
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In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
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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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Man, like the generous vine, supported lives the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.
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Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
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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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Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.
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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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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Hope springs eternal.
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