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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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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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When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.
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She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.
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No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.
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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.
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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.
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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.
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But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.
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