Love finds an altar for forbidden fires. ✨ Alexander Pope, William Lis…

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Love finds an altar for forbidden fires. ✨ Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, William Warburton, Joseph Warton (1806). The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Sappho to Phaon. Eloisa to Abelard. The temple of fame. January and May. The wife of Bath. The first book of Statius's Thebais. The fable of Dryope. Vertumnus and Pomona. Imitations [of English poets] Miscellanies. Epitaphs, p.44
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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven. ✨ Alexander Pope (1824). The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations, p.385
The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air. ✨ Alexander Pop … ▶
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Men would be angels, angels would be gods. ✨ 'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 125

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