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The proper study of Mankind is Man.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.
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At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?
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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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Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it
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Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
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How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
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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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