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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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Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
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A mighty maze! But not without a plan.
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The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
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How vast a memory has Love!
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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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Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man A mighty maze! but not without a plan.
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Avoid Extremes and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.
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Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.
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A field of glory is a field for all.
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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions they hold them.
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Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.
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Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
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With too much quickness ever to be taught With too much thinking to have common thought.
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