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Nor in the critic let the man be lost.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
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The zeal of fools offends at any time.
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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
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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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Get place and wealth, if possible with grace if not, by any means get wealth and place.
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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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From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, as a king's favorite or a king.
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The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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Order is Heaven's first law and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing bliss is the same in subject or in king.
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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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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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