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Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
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The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
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