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What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?
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In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes At every word a reputation dies.
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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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Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
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The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.
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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace if not, by any means get wealth and place.
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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.
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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.
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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?
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The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
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Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
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'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.
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Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.
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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
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Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
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