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Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
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First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
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Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.
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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
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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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Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
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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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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
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How vast a memory has Love!
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When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
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From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.
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Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
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But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
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Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it
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