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Cavil you may, but never criticise.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.
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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.
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Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
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Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.
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Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
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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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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
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A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.
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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.
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Hope humbly then with trembling pinions soar Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
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Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
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Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between in doubt to act or rest In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast In doubt his mind or body to prefer Born to die, and reasoning but to err.
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If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
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