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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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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
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Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
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In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.
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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
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