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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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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.
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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?
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Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?
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