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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.
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Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.
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