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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.

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 would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!
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A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
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Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?
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To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.
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Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.
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Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
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At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.
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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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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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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
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There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
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