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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.
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Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.
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The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.
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Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.
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I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.
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The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
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And write about it, Goddess, and about it!
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Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
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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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So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.
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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
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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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