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We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.
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Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.
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Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.
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To err is human to forgive, divine.
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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.
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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
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The laughers are a majority.
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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.
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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
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In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.
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Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.
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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
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Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
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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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