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The heart resolves this matter in a trice, Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.
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By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.
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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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No creature smarts so little as a fool.
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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
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It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.
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At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.
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The proper study of Mankind is Man.
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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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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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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.
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