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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
Alexander Pope
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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.
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Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
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The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
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Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call.
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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
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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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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 Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.
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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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