For virtue's self may too much zeal be had the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.Alexander Pope
Thou know'st how guiltless first I met thy flame,
When Love approach'd me under Friendship's name;
My fancy form'd thee of angelic kind,
Some emanation of th' all-beauteous Mind.
Alexander Pope
He saw, he wish'd, and to the prize aspir'd. Resolv'd to win, he meditates the way, By force to ravish, or by fraud betray; For when success a lover's toil attends, Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends.
Alexander Pope
Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees.
Alexander Pope
Peeled, patched, and piebald, linsey-wolsey brothers, Grave mummers sleeveless some, and shirtless others.
Alexander Pope
Ev'n copious Dryden wanted, or forgot, The last and greatest art, the art to blot.
Alexander Pope
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