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Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather and prunello.
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Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.
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Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
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Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.
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The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.
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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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Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person they make friendships as kings of old made leagues, who sacrificed some poor animal betwixt them, and commenced strict allies so the ladies, after they have pulled some character to pieces, are from henceforth inviolable friends.
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Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.
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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
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Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.
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Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
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Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.
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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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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
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Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
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Be niggards of advice on no pretense For the worst avarice is that of sense.
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