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

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
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Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
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When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
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Genius involves both envy and calumny.
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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
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Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
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Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
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Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words,-health, peace, and competence.
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How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.
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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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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.
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No, make me mistress to the man I love If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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At ev'ry word a reputation dies.
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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
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The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.
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If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!
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