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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.
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Not always actions show the man we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?
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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's blessed.
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O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.
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To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.
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Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.
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Astrologers that future fates foreshow.
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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.
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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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Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield Learn from the beasts the physic of the field The arts of building from the bee receive Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.
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Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.
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