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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.
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Nay, fly to altars there they'll talk you dead For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.
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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
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Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.
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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
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Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
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