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I have more zeal than wit.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Words are like Leaves and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own
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You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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It is sure the hardest science to forget!
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.
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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
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