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What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
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Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.
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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
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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 swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.
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But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.
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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.
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Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
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