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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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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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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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A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
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Every woman is at heart a rake.
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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.
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Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.
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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.
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Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.
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A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.
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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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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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