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With too much quickness ever to be taught With too much thinking to have common thought.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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No creature smarts so little as a fool.
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The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.
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False happiness is like false money it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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This long disease, my life.
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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
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There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.
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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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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
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Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions they hold them.
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True self-love and social are the same.
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What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
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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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To Him no high, no low, no great, no small He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all!
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