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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
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Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.
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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
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In men, we various ruling passions find In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
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The light of Heaven restore Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
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'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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It is sure the hardest science to forget!
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