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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
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Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.
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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
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The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
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Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!
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Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
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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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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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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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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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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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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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Mankind is unamendable.
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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
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Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.
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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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