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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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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
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While man exclaims, See all things for my use! See man for mine! replies a pamper'd goose.
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All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood All partial evil, universal good.
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
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Yes, I am proud I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.
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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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Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.
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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
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Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?
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We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.
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