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What will a child learn sooner than a song?

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Hope humbly then with trembling pinions soar Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
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Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.
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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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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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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
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There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.
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The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at if we laugh at it, they say we are proud if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.
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The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
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See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.
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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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