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Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
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Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.
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Then sculpture and her sister arts revived stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.
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While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
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Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right.
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To Him no high, no low, no great, no small He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all!
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To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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