In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies;
All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies.
(An Essay On Man In Four Epistles: Epistle 1)
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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will You've played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill Walk sober off before a sprightlier age Comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage.Alexander Pope
Or her, that owns her Faults, but never mends,
Because she's honest, and the best of Friends.
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Is there a parson, much bemused in beer, A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, A clerk foredoomed his father's soul to cross; Who pens a stanza, when he should engross.
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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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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
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