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In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
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Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.
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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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Not always actions show the man we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
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To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between in doubt to act or rest In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast In doubt his mind or body to prefer Born to die, and reasoning but to err.
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Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.
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A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.
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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
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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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