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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather and prunello.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.
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See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly!
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When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.
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A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.
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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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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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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.
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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
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These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!
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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
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