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Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
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No, make me mistress to the man I love If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
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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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The light of Heaven restore Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
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Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
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No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.
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No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
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Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
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Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
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The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.
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If, presume not to God to scan The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.
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Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.
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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
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A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.
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