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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Age and want sit smiling at the gate.
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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
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Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.
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No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.
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It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.
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Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.
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Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.
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Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.
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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
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Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.
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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
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Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
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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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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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