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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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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
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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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Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.
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But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.
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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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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
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A mighty maze! But not without a plan.
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Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
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Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
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Every professional was once an amateur.
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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
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The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
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With too much quickness ever to be taught With too much thinking to have common thought.
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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.
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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather and prunello.
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