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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.
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Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
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In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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