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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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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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Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
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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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Be niggards of advice on no pretense For the worst avarice is that of sense.
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Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!
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The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
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Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.
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A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
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Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
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Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.
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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
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Age and want sit smiling at the gate.
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How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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