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I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
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Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
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And make each day a critic on the last.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.
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And empty heads console with empty sound.
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