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

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
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So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?
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At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.
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What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue.
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One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.
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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.
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The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
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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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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
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