If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac’d on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
ALEXANDER POPEThere is a majesty in simplicity.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.
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Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
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There is a majesty in simplicity.
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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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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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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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The people’s voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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