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With too much quickness ever to be taught With too much thinking to have common thought.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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True self-love and social are the same.
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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
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Hope springs eternal.
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Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
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Wit and judgment often are at strife.
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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
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Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.
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See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly!
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For forms of government let fools contest Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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