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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
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I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
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False happiness is like false money it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
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Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
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Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.
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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
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