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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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To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.
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Hope springs eternal.
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
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Hope humbly then with trembling pinions soar Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still A Gownman learn'd a Bishop what you will Wise if a minister but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.
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The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.
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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
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One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.
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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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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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