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Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?
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Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.
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To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
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Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own
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No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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Virtue alone is happiness below.
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A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!
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A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
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And more than echoes talk along the walls.
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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
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A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Be niggards of advice on no pretense For the worst avarice is that of sense.
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