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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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 time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
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Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.
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