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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
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Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.
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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
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Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.
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Men, some to business, some to pleasure take But every woman is at heart a rake.
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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.
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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
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What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.
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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.
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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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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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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?
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Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own
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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
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