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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
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Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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Hope humbly then with trembling pinions soar Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.
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Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
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And more than echoes talk along the walls.
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Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.
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The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
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But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
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Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try, And ring suspected vessels ere they buy But wives, a random choice, untried they take They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away, And all the woman glares in open day.
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The light of Heaven restore Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
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So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.
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