Unhappy Wit, like most mistaken Things,
Attones not for that Envy which it brings.
(An Essay On Criticism)
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Nature stands check'd; Religion disapproves;Ev'n thou art cold--yet Eloisa loves.
Alexander Pope
Truth needs not flowers of speech.
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Virtuous and vicious everyone must be few in extremes, but all in degree.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
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Ah ne'er so dire a Thirst of Glory boast,
Nor in the Critick let the Man be lost!
Alexander Pope
Canst thou forget that sad, that solemn day,
When victims at yon altar's foot we lay?
Alexander Pope
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