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No, make me mistress to the man I love If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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In men, we various ruling passions find In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
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The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
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I begin where most people end, with a full conviction of the emptiness of all sorts of ambition, and the unsatisfactory nature of all human pleasures.
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The villain's censure is extorted praise.
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To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
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And make each day a critic on the last.
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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd if right, I kiss'd the rod.
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We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.
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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?
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Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.
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From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, as a king's favorite or a king.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.
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Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.
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