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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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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
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A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.
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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.
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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
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Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoyIs it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?
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Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.
Alexander Pope
Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.
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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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And not a vanity is given in vain.
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace. But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?
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A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
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