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What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.
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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
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A mighty maze! But not without a plan.
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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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In men, we various ruling passions find In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.
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Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.
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But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
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We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.
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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.
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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
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