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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.

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 worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
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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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Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.
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There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.
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See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.
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All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.
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Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.
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Age and want sit smiling at the gate.
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Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
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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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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather and prunello.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them
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Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
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Genius involves both envy and calumny.
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One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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