Envy, to which the ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learned or brave.
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.Alexander Pope
Never find fault with the absent.
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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.
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Stretched on the rack of a too easy chair.
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Yet write, oh write me all, that I may join
Griefs to thy griefs, and echo sighs to thine.
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How far your Genius, Taste, and Learning go;
Launch not beyond your Depth, but be discreet,
And mark that Point where Sense and Dulness meet.
Alexander Pope
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