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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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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.
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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.
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Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
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A long, exact, and serious comedy In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.
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A field of glory is a field for all.
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.
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Astrologers that future fates foreshow.
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These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!
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Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
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Hope humbly then with trembling pinions soar Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.
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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
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