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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.
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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.
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On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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