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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
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The laughers are a majority.
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This long disease, my life.
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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.
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Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
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chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.
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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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The villain's censure is extorted praise.
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Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
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All chance, direction, which thou canst not see
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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
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