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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?
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The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.
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Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.
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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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I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!
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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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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
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Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.
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If, presume not to God to scan The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).
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Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.
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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.
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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
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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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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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