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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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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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Consult the Genius of the Place in all.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
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No creature smarts so little as a fool.
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Whatever is, is right.
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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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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
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That each from other differs, first confess next that he varies from himself no less.
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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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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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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
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The grave unites where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!
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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
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Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.
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