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Man, like the generous vine, supported lives the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man A mighty maze! but not without a plan.
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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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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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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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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
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Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.
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A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
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No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
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But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
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In death a hero, as in life a friend!
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!
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Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
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