The Critick else proceeds without Remorse,
Seizes your Fame, and puts his Laws in force.
(An Essay On Criticism)
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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
Dip in the Rainbow, trick her off in Air;
Choose a firm Cloud, before it fall, and in it
Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
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'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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Let spades be trumps she said, and trumps they were.
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The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
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Nature stands check'd; Religion disapproves;
Ev'n thou art cold--yet Eloisa loves.
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