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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey.
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And empty heads console with empty sound.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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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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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
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The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
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False happiness is like false money it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
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A perfect woman's but a softer man.
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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
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Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's blessed.
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Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
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Genius involves both envy and calumny.
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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.
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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
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Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
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Superstition is the spleen of the soul.
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The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
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And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
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