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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Alexander I Pope
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The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.
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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
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While man exclaims, See all things for my use! See man for mine! replies a pamper'd goose.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.
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The villain's censure is extorted praise.
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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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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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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
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Wit and judgment often are at strife.
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Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!
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A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.
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