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A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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That each from other differs, first confess next that he varies from himself no less.
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For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.
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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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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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No more was seen the human form divine.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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A king may be a tool, a thing of straw but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.
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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.
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Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.
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