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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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Judge not of actions by their mere effect Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
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Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
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No more was seen the human form divine.
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See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly!
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
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Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.
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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace if not, by any means get wealth and place.
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With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?-She wants a heart.
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Words are like Leaves and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
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A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!
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All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.
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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.
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