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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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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
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All chance, direction, which thou canst not see
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.
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Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.
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Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.
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Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
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How vast a memory has Love!
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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace if not, by any means get wealth and place.
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Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
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Genius creates, and taste preserves.
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Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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