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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four?
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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
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The light of Heaven restore Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
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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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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
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In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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No, make me mistress to the man I love If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
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Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.
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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.
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Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.
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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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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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