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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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See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly!
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's blessed.
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At ev'ry word a reputation dies.
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He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.
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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.
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Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
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Man, like the generous vine, supported lives the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.
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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
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Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.
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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
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Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
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The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.
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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
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