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Avoid Extremes and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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Who pants for glory, finds but short repose A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
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A patriot is a fool in ev'ry age.
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Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.
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A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?-She wants a heart.
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Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
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