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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.
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At ev'ry word a reputation dies.
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Virtue alone is happiness below.
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost contracted all, retiring to the breast but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.
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For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.
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She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.
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I am his Highness' dog at Kew Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
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There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.
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Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
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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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Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
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Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.
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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
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Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.
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Tis true, 'tis certain man, though dead, retains Part of himself the immortal mind remains.
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.
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