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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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A little learning is a dangerous thing drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.
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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue
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Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
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No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
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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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Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy.
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Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
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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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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
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Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?
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