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

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
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All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.
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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
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Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four?
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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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Whatever is, is right.
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It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.
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Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.
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Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?
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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still A Gownman learn'd a Bishop what you will Wise if a minister but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.
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The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.
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The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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