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Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.
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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.
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Judges and senates have been bought for gold Esteem and love were never to be sold.
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You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
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Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.
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Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.
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What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.
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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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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.
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Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.
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Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
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The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.
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