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A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.
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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .
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Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still A Gownman learn'd a Bishop what you will Wise if a minister but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.
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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?
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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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Education forms the common mind.
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
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A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.
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The heart resolves this matter in a trice, Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.
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Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
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While man exclaims, See all things for my use! See man for mine! replies a pamper'd goose.
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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
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