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Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
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Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
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Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.
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A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.
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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
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To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.
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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
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And empty heads console with empty sound.
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We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.
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Judge not of actions by their mere effect Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.
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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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