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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 let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.
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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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Wit and judgment often are at strife.
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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
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Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
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The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
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Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.
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Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.
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At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science and in like sort should our author accustom and exercise his imagination upon the dregs of nature.
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
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