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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.
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In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.
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Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.
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The villain's censure is extorted praise.
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Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
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These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!
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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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But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
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Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man A mighty maze! but not without a plan.
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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace if not, by any means get wealth and place.
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The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.
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Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own
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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
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Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.
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