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Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.
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Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.
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A mighty maze! But not without a plan.
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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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The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
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Astrologers that future fates foreshow.
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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
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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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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.
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There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.
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Then sculpture and her sister arts revived stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.
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Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
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Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield Learn from the beasts the physic of the field The arts of building from the bee receive Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.
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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
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