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For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.
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Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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The laughers are a majority.
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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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Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.
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Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
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