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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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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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All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
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The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.
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Search then the ruling passion there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known The fool consistent, and the false sincere Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
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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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Astrologers that future fates foreshow.
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Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.
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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
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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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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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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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Passions are the gales of life.
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