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Alexander Pope
 
Nationality:   English
 
Date of Birth:   May 21, 1688
 
Date of Death:   May 30,  1744
 
Profession:   Poet
 
 
 
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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
 
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
 
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Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
 
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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
 
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
 
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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
 
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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
 
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
 
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Passions are the gales of life.
 
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Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
 
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
 
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