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Alexander Pope


English
May 21, 1688
Poet
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Health consists with temperance alone.


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Order is heaven's first law.


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Tags: First Order Law
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot.


Alexander Pope
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A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest.


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Tags: Face Rest
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.


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Tags: Pride Vice Fools
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The proper study of Mankind is Man.


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Tags: Man Study Mankind
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The most positive men are the most credulous.


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Tags: Men Positive Most
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.


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Tags: Men Would Gods
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.


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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.


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Tags: Wit Wits Dunce
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A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.


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Tags: Heart Lead Brain
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Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.


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Tags: Soul Sight Strike
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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.


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Tags: Hope Us Through
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For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.


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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.


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Tags: How Thought Sense
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.


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Tags: Nature Child Law
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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.


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Tags: More Make Which
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'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.


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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.


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Tags: First New Old
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!


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Tags: God Nature Said
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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.


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Tags: Want Never Things
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
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Tags: About Being Every
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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Tags: Good Only Without
Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
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Tags: Own Man His
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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Tags: Time Like Our
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
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Tags: Business Like Who