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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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The good must merit God's peculiar care But who but God can tell us who they are?
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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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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.
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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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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
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In death a hero, as in life a friend!
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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.
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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
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Education forms the common mind.
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Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it
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Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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