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Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
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Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.
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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
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It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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No craving void left aching in the soul.
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What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.
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Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .
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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
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Judge not of actions by their mere effect Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
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