Ah ne'er so dire a Thirst of Glory boast,
Nor in the Critick let the Man be lost!
(An Essay On Criticism)
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Unlearn'd, he knew no schoolman's subtle art, No language, but the language of the heart.Alexander Pope
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Ah let thy handmaid, sister, daughter move,
And all those tender names in one, thy love!
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Fine by defect and delicately weak.
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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great.
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Not louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or when lap-dogs breathe their last.
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