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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
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No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.
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Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.
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At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.
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How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
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Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
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Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
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She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.
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Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield Learn from the beasts the physic of the field The arts of building from the bee receive Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
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