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Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!
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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
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In men, we various ruling passions find In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
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Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.
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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood All partial evil, universal good.
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
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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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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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Avoid Extremes and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.
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It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
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