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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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Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
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Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
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