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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Women use lovers as they do cards they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor.
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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
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Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.
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Most authors steal their works, or buy.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
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At ev'ry word a reputation dies.
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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
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Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!
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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.
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