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A little learning is a dangerous thing.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
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A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
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The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.
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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
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See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.
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To err is human to forgive, divine.
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Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
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No more was seen the human form divine.
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What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
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A field of glory is a field for all.
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