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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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Women use lovers as they do cards they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Alexander Pope
Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
Alexander Pope
Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
Alexander Pope
Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.
Alexander Pope
We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
Alexander Pope
Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.
Alexander Pope
Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
Alexander Pope
'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.
Alexander Pope
Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.
Alexander Pope
Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.
Alexander Pope
Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
Alexander Pope
Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
Alexander Pope
The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.
Alexander Pope
Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
Alexander Pope
To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.
Alexander Pope
