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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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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
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Chaos of thought and passion, all confused Still by himself abused or disabused Created half to rise, and half to fall Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.
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A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.
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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
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Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.
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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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The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.
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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
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Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.
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The proper study of Mankind is Man.
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Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.
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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
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But honest instinct comes a volunteer Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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To err is human to forgive, divine.
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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
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