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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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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.
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A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.
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Say first, of god above or man below what can we reason but from what we know.
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
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Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.
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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
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Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.
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The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at if we laugh at it, they say we are proud if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.
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In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes At every word a reputation dies.
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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
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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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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
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Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
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With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?-She wants a heart.
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Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man A mighty maze! but not without a plan.
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