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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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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.
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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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Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
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Nay, fly to altars there they'll talk you dead For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
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All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]
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Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
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Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.
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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
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The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.
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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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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
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chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.
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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
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But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!
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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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