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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
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New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.
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Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.
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In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.
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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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Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.
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Whatever is, is right.
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Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.
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Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.
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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
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Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
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There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
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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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Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal darkness buries all.
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