Let Blood and Body bear the fault,
Her Head's untouch'd, that noble Seat of Thought:
Such this day's doctrine--in another fit
She sins with Poets thro' pure Love of Wit.
(Epistle II: To A Lady (of The Characters Of Women))
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.Alexander Pope
O happiness our being's end and aim Good, pleasure, ease, content whate'er thy name That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
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At ev'ry trifle scorn to take offense.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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Yet then, to those dread altars as I drew,
Not on the Cross my eyes were fix'd, but you:
Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call,
And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
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