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Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
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There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.
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Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.
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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
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Expression is the dress of thought.
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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
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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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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).
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