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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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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
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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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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.
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Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.
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Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.
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Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
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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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Offend her, and she knows not to forgive Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.
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The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.
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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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To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.
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All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.
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