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So upright Quakers please both man and God.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.
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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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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
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Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.
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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 generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
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There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.
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Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
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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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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.
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No more was seen the human form divine.
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The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Stanza 1.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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