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Who builds a church to God, and not to fame,
Will never mark the marble with his name.
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AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM.
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'Tis with our judgments as our watches; none
Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
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And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise,
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed,
What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Line 362.
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
Line 365.
The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
Line 525.
To err is human: to forgive, divine.
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For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF AN UNFORTUNATE LADY.
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By strangers honored and by strangers mourned
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And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
* * * * *
THE RAPE OF THE LOCK.
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