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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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Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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Virtue alone is happiness below.
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Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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A long, exact, and serious comedy In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
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We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.
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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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Tis true, 'tis certain man, though dead, retains Part of himself the immortal mind remains.
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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
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What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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