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

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Wit and judgment often are at strife.
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And make each day a critic on the last.
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Hope humbly then with trembling pinions soar Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
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Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoyIs it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?
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Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.
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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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