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'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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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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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.
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Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.
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Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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That each from other differs, first confess next that he varies from himself no less.
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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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Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.
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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.
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Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
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Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.
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But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
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Most authors steal their works, or buy.
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For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.
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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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