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Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
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Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.
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The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
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The laughers are a majority.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between in doubt to act or rest In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast In doubt his mind or body to prefer Born to die, and reasoning but to err.
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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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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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.
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And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.
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Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
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The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
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