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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!
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Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
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A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.
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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace. But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
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The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at if we laugh at it, they say we are proud if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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