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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave. ✨ Alexander Pope (1804). The Leaser. Being a Selection from the Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, with an Account of His Life and Writings, p.15
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work. ✨ Alexander Pope, Epistles To Several Persons: Epistle Iv, To Richard Boyle,
Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross? ✨ Alexander Pope (1854). The Poetic … ▶
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
Woman's at best a contradiction still. ✨ 'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To a Lady' (1735) l. 270
Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know. ✨ Alexander Pope (1847). The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are … ▶

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave. ✨ Alexander Pope (1804). The Leaser. Being a Selection from the Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, with an Account of His Life and Writings, p.15

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