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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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So upright Quakers please both man and God.
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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.
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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.
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A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.
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Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.
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Woman's at best a contradiction still.
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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
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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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A king may be a tool, a thing of straw but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.
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Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
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