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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
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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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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
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Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.
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Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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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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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
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Chaos of thought and passion, all confused Still by himself abused or disabused Created half to rise, and half to fall Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.
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