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Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.
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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
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To Him no high, no low, no great, no small He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all!
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.
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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.
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Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
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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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While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
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