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A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friends motions and inclinations, he possesses this in a eminent degree he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more than many good friends can pretend to do.
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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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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.
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So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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A long, exact, and serious comedy In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.
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Hope springs eternal.
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All chance, direction, which thou canst not see
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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.
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As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?
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Nay, fly to altars there they'll talk you dead For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.
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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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