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There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
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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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With too much quickness ever to be taught With too much thinking to have common thought.
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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.
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So upright Quakers please both man and God.
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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.
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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
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Wit and judgment often are at strife.
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Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.
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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
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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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