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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
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Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.
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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
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Nay, fly to altars there they'll talk you dead For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).
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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.
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Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.
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Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.
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Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
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