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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!
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I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.
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As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.
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To Him no high, no low, no great, no small He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all!
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How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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