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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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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.
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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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Hope springs eternal.
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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather and prunello.
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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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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
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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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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
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Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try, And ring suspected vessels ere they buy But wives, a random choice, untried they take They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away, And all the woman glares in open day.
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Genius involves both envy and calumny.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves.
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No creature smarts so little as a fool.
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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.
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