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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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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
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In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.
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Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still A Gownman learn'd a Bishop what you will Wise if a minister but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.
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Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.
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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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The proper study of Mankind is Man.
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Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.
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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
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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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Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.
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The laughers are a majority.
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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