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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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No craving void left aching in the soul.
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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
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The laughers are a majority.
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather and prunello.
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Most women have no characters at all.
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The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.
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Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.
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Judges and senates have been bought for gold Esteem and love were never to be sold.
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Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.
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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.
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Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.
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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
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