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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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Chaos of thought and passion, all confused Still by himself abused or disabused Created half to rise, and half to fall Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.
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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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Most women have no characters at all.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
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And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
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The enormous faith of many made for one.
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Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
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In men, we various ruling passions find In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.
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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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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
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Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.
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Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.
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