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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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A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.
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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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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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Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.
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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.
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The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies.
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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
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Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Search then the ruling passion there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known The fool consistent, and the false sincere Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
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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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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 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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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
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