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The heart resolves this matter in a trice, Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
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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 finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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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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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join To err is human, to forgive, divine.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
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What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
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