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Education forms the common mind.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
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To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.
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The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy.
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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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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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To err is human to forgive, divine.
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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
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The light of Heaven restore Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
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She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.
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I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace if not, by any means get wealth and place.
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Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.
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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?
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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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