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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost contracted all, retiring to the breast but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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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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In men, we various ruling passions find In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
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Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
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If, presume not to God to scan The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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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 is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
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