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One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
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Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.
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Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's blessed.
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No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.
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A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!
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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
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A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
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Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.
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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
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No craving void left aching in the soul.
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I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
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