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A mighty maze! But not without a plan.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.
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If, presume not to God to scan The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
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On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
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How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
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By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.
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Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
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The grave unites where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!
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All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood All partial evil, universal good.
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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
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All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.
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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
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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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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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