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Those Oft Are Stratagems Which Errors Seem, Nor Is It Homer Nods, But We That Dream.
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Those oft are stratagems which errors seem,
Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Essay on Criticism, Part i, Line 177
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True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 97...
From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part i, Line 152...
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 53...
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
'T is not enough no harshness gives offence,-- The sound must seem an echo to the sense....
Some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there.
These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire...
Led by the light of the Maeonian star.
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To err is human, to forgive divine.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part ii, Line 325...
And make each day a critic on the last.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism, Part iii, Line 12...
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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