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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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But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams hand listening in their fall!
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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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Man, like the generous vine, supported lives the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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In death a hero, as in life a friend!
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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.
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Genius creates, and taste preserves.
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Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
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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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Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
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Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
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No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.
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It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.
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We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.
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When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.
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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
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