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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
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Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
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That each from other differs, first confess next that he varies from himself no less.
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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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Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
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Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.
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No craving void left aching in the soul.
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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
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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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Who pants for glory, finds but short repose A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
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