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For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.
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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
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He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
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With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.
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In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.
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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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