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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.
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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.
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Nay, fly to altars there they'll talk you dead For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.
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See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly!
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With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.
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When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.
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Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.
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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 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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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.
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If, presume not to God to scan The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
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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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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
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