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The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
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Astrologers that future fates foreshow.
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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
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Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
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At ev'ry word a reputation dies.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?
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Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.
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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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How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.
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One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.
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