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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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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
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Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
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With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.
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I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
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