The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not Wife, To help me through this long disease, my life.
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For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.Alexander Pope
Steals my senses, shuts my sight,
Drowns my spirits, draws my breath?
Alexander Pope
I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature, as such are chiefly sensible, that all Art consists in the Imitation and Study of Nature. On the contrary, People of the common Level of Understanding are principally delighted with the Little Niceties and Fantastical Operations of Art, and constantly think that finest which is least Natural.
Alexander Pope
Each beast, each insect, happy in its own:
Is Heav'n unkind to man, and man alone?
Alexander Pope
How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us.
Alexander Pope
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
Alexander Pope
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