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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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Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
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No craving void left aching in the soul.
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And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.
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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
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The light of Heaven restore Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
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There is but one way I know of conversing safely with all men that is, not by concealing what we say or do, but by saying or doing nothing that deserves to be concealed.
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When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.
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How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
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Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
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There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.
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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
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The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be, In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.
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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
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Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
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Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
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