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Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost!
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
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Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.
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Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
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Cavil you may, but never criticise.
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Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still A Gownman learn'd a Bishop what you will Wise if a minister but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.
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So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.
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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
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For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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