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A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.
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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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This long disease, my life.
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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
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Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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And more than echoes talk along the walls.
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Nay, fly to altars there they'll talk you dead For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
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Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.
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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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