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Beauty draws us with a single hair.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
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Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.
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Education forms the common mind.
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Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
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Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.
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Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.
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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
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Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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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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Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.
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It is sure the hardest science to forget!
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.
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Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!
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What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
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All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
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