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The villain's censure is extorted praise.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man A mighty maze! but not without a plan.
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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
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All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.
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See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!
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Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
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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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Fear not the anger of the wise to raise Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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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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Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
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