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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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Dogs, ye have had your day!
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I am his Highness' dog at Kew Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
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The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own Or come discolor'd through out passions shown Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.
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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
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The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.
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Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.
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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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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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No, make me mistress to the man I love If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
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And make each day a critic on the last.
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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?
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What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?
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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
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All nature's diff'rence keeps all nature's peace.
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