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New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
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Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.
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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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All nature is but art unknown to thee.
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What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
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What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue.
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I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.
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Man, like the generous vine, supported lives the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.
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Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.
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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
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Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?
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A little learning is a dangerous thing drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
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Dogs, ye have had your day!
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