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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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Man, like the generous vine, supported lives the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.
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No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.
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Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.
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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
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And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
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In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.
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O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.
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So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.
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Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.
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Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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False happiness is like false money it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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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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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
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Say first, of god above or man below what can we reason but from what we know.
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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