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Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?
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Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
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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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Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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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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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.
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A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.
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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
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A perfect woman's but a softer man.
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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.
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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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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.
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Most authors steal their works, or buy.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoyIs it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?
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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather and prunello.
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