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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Be niggards of advice on no pretense For the worst avarice is that of sense.
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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!
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It is sure the hardest science to forget!
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The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.
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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
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Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.
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The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.
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Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
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Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.
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Who pants for glory, finds but short repose A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
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Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?
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Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
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