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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.
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Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.
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Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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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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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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Death, only death, can break the lasting chain And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain
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The proper study of Mankind is Man.
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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
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I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.
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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.
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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.
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