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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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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
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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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The good must merit God's peculiar care But who but God can tell us who they are?
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To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.
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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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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?
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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
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Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
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But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!
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A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.
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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
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