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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.
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Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
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Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.
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In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.
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E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.
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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!
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A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!
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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
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Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.
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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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For forms of government, let fools contest Whate'er is best administered, is best.
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Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!
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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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A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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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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