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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.
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She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.
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Dogs, ye have had your day!
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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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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It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.
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Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.
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In men, we various ruling passions find In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
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In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.
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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
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Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.
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Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man A mighty maze! but not without a plan.
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