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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
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Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
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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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Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
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Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.
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Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.
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Most authors steal their works, or buy.
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An honest man's the noblest work of God.
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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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But honest instinct comes a volunteer Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
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False happiness is like false money it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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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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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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In men, we various ruling passions find In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
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Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
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Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
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