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The proper study of Mankind is Man.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.
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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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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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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
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Say first, of god above or man below what can we reason but from what we know.
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Alexander Pope
And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
Alexander Pope
Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
Alexander Pope
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.
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Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.
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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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And not a vanity is given in vain.
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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Alexander Pope
All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
Alexander Pope
Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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