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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
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Women use lovers as they do cards they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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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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Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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A king may be a tool, a thing of straw but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.
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Love the offender, yet detest the offense.
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Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.
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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.
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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
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A perfect woman's but a softer man.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
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