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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.
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Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.
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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
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When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
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Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still A Gownman learn'd a Bishop what you will Wise if a minister but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.
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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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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.
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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
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No craving void left aching in the soul.
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Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!
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Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
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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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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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