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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practice it.
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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
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If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!
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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
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Cavil you may, but never criticise.
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Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.
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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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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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Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still A Gownman learn'd a Bishop what you will Wise if a minister but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
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Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
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In men, we various ruling passions find In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
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Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
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What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
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