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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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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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The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.
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Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
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