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A field of glory is a field for all.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
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Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.
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No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace. But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.
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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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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
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With too much quickness ever to be taught With too much thinking to have common thought.
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Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.
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Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind.
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Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye that habitually compares everything to something better. But by changing that habit to comparing everything to something worse, even making it a game, that person can find gratitude, relief and happiness where-ever they go and whatever they experience, guaranteed!
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The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).
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Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
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