Statesman, yet friend to truth of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.Alexander Pope
Dip in the Rainbow, trick her off in Air;
Choose a firm Cloud, before it fall, and in it
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Let such teach others who themselves excel And censure freely who have written well.
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Envy, to which the ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learned or brave.
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But now no face divine contentment wears,
'Tis all blank sadness, or continual tears.
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The proper study of Mankind is Man.
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