Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.
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ALEXANDER TROCCHI Most authors steal their works, or buy.
ALEXANDER POPE Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
ALEXANDER POPE True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'T...
ALEXANDER POPE Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
ALEXANDER POPE Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON The bookful blockhead ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head,
With his own ...
ALEXANDER POPE I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which a...
ALEXANDER POPE They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
ALEXANDER POPE