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Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.
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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?
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Nay, fly to altars there they'll talk you dead For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.
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The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.
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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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Yes, I am proud I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.
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Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
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In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.
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The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
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See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
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So upright Quakers please both man and God.
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