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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.
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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.
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It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.
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The good must merit God's peculiar care But who but God can tell us who they are?
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See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly!
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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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