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Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.
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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
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Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.
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Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.
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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
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Not always actions show the man we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
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Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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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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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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Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
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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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The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth.
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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.
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