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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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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
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Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.
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Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.
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To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
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Who pants for glory, finds but short repose A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
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When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.
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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.
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The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
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For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
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Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
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Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
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While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
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When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.
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A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
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I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
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