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Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.

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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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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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Ah! why, ye Gods, should two and two make four?
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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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The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.
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Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it
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The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own Or come discolor'd through out passions shown Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.
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But honest instinct comes a volunteer Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
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Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.
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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
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Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's blessed.
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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
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