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Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.
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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
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In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.
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'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.
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Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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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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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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And write about it, Goddess, and about it!
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