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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
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Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
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Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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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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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
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Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
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A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practice it.
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Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.
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And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.
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As with narrow-necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.
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