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Consult the Genius of the Place in all.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
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For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.
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Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.
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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
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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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O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
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Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.
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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
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Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.
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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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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.
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A mighty maze! But not without a plan.
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Condition, circumstance, is not the thing Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
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