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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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A little learning is a dangerous thing drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.
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To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.
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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
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Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
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Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
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Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.
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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.
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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.
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A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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So perish all who do the like again.
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