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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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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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In men, we various ruling passions find In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
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Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!
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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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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
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