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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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All nature's diff'rence keeps all nature's peace.
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Yes, I am proud I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
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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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So perish all who do the like again.
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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.
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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.
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Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.
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How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?
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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.
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Dogs, ye have had your day!
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Never find fault with the absent.
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