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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.
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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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The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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For forms of government, let fools contest Whate'er is best administered, is best.
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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.
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Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal darkness buries all.
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Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
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That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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A field of glory is a field for all.
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Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
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Whatever is, is right.
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Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.
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