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No creature smarts so little as a fool.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
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Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.
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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.
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Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.
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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.
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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!
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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .
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Genius involves both envy and calumny.
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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