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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
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Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.
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Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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