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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.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.
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Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?
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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.
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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
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A perfect woman's but a softer man.
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And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
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