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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.
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Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.
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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
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So upright Quakers please both man and God.
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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
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Chaos of thought and passion, all confused Still by himself abused or disabused Created half to rise, and half to fall Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.
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I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
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To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
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What bosom beast not in his country's cause?
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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
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Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
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