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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
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The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
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The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at if we laugh at it, they say we are proud if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.
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And not a vanity is given in vain.
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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
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Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
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Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
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Hope humbly then with trembling pinions soar Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?
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Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.
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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.
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