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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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Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
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Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
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The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
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A perfect woman's but a softer man.
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Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?
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Education forms the common mind.
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Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.
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Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four?
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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.
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