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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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A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.
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So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.
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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.
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Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.
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Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person they make friendships as kings of old made leagues, who sacrificed some poor animal betwixt them, and commenced strict allies so the ladies, after they have pulled some character to pieces, are from henceforth inviolable friends.
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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
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A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.
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If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!
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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join To err is human, to forgive, divine.
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There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
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Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
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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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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
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The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.
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