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And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
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To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.
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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
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By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
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He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.
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Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.
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Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.
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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
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Superstition is the spleen of the soul.
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And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.
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Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.
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