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And die of nothing but a rage to live.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Education forms the common mind.
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Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.
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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
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Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.
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Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.
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Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.
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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
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Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
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Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
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The proper study of Mankind is Man.
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The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.
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What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.
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Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.
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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.
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