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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.
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Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
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But honest instinct comes a volunteer Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
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Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
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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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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.
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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?
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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
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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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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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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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The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
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No craving void left aching in the soul.
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No creature smarts so little as a fool.
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