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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.
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Yes, I am proud I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.
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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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Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.
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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.
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Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.
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Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield Learn from the beasts the physic of the field The arts of building from the bee receive Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.
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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
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In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.
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Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.
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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace. But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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