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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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Whatever is, is right.
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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends
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I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
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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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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
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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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See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.
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There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
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