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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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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
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Dogs, ye have had your day!
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Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
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Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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True self-love and social are the same.
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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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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
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