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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.
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Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.
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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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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.
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No creature smarts so little as a fool.
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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
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Then sculpture and her sister arts revived stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
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