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I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
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But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.
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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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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.
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The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
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Health consists with temperance alone.
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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
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All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]
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Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
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To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
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Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
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The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.
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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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Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.
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See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.
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And make each day a critic on the last.
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