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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.
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If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
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A king may be a tool, a thing of straw but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.
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Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
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Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?
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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
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Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.
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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).
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Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print.
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