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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
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Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.
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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
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The villain's censure is extorted praise.
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The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.
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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
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Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!
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The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
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Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
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One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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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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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.
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What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?
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Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.
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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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