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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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Order is Heaven's first law and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.
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Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.
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But honest instinct comes a volunteer Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
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There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity both being equally subject to change.
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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather and prunello.
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As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.
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