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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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All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood All partial evil, universal good.
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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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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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
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Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.
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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
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Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
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Never find fault with the absent.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
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Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
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Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
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Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
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