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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 cabinets of the sick and the closets of the dead have been ransacked to publish private letters and divulge to all mankind the most secret sentiments of friendship.
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Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
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Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.
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See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.
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Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
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Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.
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Not always actions show the man we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
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Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.
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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
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Then sculpture and her sister arts revived stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.
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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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O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
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Education forms the common mind.
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The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
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Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.
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Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .
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