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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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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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Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
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Search then the ruling passion there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known The fool consistent, and the false sincere Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
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Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.
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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
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But honest instinct comes a volunteer Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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What will a child learn sooner than a song?
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.
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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
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You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
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Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.
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The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.
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A king may be a tool, a thing of straw but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.
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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
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