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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.
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What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
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And more than echoes talk along the walls.
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Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
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Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
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Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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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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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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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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Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
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So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.
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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.
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The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
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Is not absence death to those who love?
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