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What will a child learn sooner than a song?

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Search then the ruling passion there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known The fool consistent, and the false sincere Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
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So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.
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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.
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An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.
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Mankind is unamendable.
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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.
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Man, like the generous vine, supported lives the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.
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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
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For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends
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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
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There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.
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But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?
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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
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Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.
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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.
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