Our passions are like convulsion-fits, which, though they m… - Alexander Pope

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Our passions are like convulsion-fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was a poet and satirist of the Augustan period and one of its greatest artistic exponents. Considered the foremost English poet of the early 18th century and a master of the heroic couplet, he is best known for satirical and discursive poetry.

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Alternative Names: Pope the Poet • Alexander I Pope • Alexander, I Pope

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Las palabras son como las hojas; cuando abundan, poco fruto hay entre ellas.

Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of Sense,
Lie in three words, Health, Peace, and Competence.
But Health consists with Temperance alone,
And Peace, oh Virtue! Peace is all thy own.

True wit is Nature to advantage dress’d,
What oft was thought, but ne’er so well express’d.

Our passions are like convulsion-fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after. - Alexander Pope

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