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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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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.
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To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.
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Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
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The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.
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The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.
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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
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