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Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
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That each from other differs, first confess next that he varies from himself no less.
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Good-nature and good-sense must ever join To err is human, to forgive, divine.
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No creature smarts so little as a fool.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.
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Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.
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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
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It is sure the hardest science to forget!
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To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.
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Judges and senates have been bought for gold Esteem and love were never to be sold.
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