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Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
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At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
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To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
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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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The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Stanza 1.
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Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.
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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
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All nature's diff'rence keeps all nature's peace.
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Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoyIs it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?
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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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And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.
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Cavil you may, but never criticise.
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