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The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions they hold them.
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