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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).
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Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoyIs it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
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Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.
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chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
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Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
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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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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.
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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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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Health consists with temperance alone.
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Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
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The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.
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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
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Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.
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