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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
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With too much quickness ever to be taught With too much thinking to have common thought.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
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Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?
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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.
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What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
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