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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves.
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I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
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It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.
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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.
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Wit and judgment often are at strife.
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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
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I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
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Love finds an altar for forbidden fires.
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Education forms the common mind.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.
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Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own
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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
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