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

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Live like yourself, was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
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All chance, direction, which thou canst not see
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!
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When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
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A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!
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Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
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Chaos of thought and passion, all confused Still by himself abused or disabused Created half to rise, and half to fall Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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With too much quickness ever to be taught With too much thinking to have common thought.
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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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Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.
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Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.
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