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Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
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And more than echoes talk along the walls.
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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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What bosom beast not in his country's cause?
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Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
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Man, like the generous vine, supported lives the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.
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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
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