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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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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
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O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.
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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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An obstinate person does not hold opinions they hold them.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
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Chaos of thought and passion, all confused Still by himself abused or disabused Created half to rise, and half to fall Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.
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Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.
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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace. But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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It is sure the hardest science to forget!
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Consult the Genius of the Place in all.
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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
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Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man A mighty maze! but not without a plan.
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To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
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See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.
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A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.
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