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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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When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
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I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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With too much quickness ever to be taught With too much thinking to have common thought.
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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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Most authors steal their works, or buy.
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A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.
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Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal darkness buries all.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions they hold them.
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