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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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A little learning is a dangerous thing drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.
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If, presume not to God to scan The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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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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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.
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Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.
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Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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The good must merit God's peculiar care But who but God can tell us who they are?
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Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.
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We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.
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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
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