English - Poet | May 21, 1688 - May 30, 1744
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
Alexander Pope
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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
NatureManHappyCareWishBreathe
Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
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In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
WordsNewWillOldFirstSame
Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
GodCloudsMindWindPoorHim
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
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The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
PassionWillReasonStillRuling
Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
ThoughtsBrainRiseHiddenAwake
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
FutureFateBlindKnowsStateHis
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
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